When Collecting Surveys About the Number of Offenses People Commit

question 9

Multiple Choice

When collecting surveys about the number of offenses people commit, you find that 60% committed zero offenses and the other 40% committed between 1 and 10 offenses. The shape of this distribution would be ______.

• A) normally distributed
• B) positively skewed
• C) negatively skewed
• D) inversely skewed

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